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Who among us could ever forget the significance of today’s date? For it was on this day in 1981 that Pope John Paul II passed through Rome, which at the time was a city half in ruins. As he made his way through …
By: S.D. Wright Canonizations are Infallible, and We Must Accept the Consequences Many Catholics reject the canonizations of Paul VI, John Paul II and others. Some reject all post-Vatican II canonizations. But everyone is instinctively aware that there is something amiss about rejecting canonizations, …
By: John Lane For many traditionalists, sedevacantism is an uncomfortable idea, a kind of unnecessary, rash, prideful, excess. They regard their own position, that Francis is pope, as more modest, less extreme, less disruptive or divisive – in a word, more Catholic. But …
“Never look directly at a solar eclipse without special protection; otherwise, you might impair your vision for life!” As children, nearly all of us were so warned by our teachers and parents. Even so, every time a solar eclipse is about to take …
Though some seem intent on insisting otherwise, the question posed in the title above couldn’t be simpler: Either the institution presently housed within the Vatican walls (let’s call it the conciliar church) is what it claims to be, the Holy Roman Catholic Church, or …
If no one power can enforce order, our world will suffer from a global order deficit… As the present state of affairs makes plain, truer words were never spoken. With nearly the entire world fixated on the dangers of COVID-19, real or imagined, …
Have you ever wondered why the Nicene Creed contains a very specific reference to Pontius Pilate? It is a rather curious thing when one considers that the only others named therein, in addition to the Persons of the Blessed Trinity, are Jesus Christ …
On January 24, 2020, the Committees on Health and Foreign Relations held a closed-door meeting with Senators (no staffers allowed) to update them on the “novel coronavirus.” This was three days after the only person in the US at the time had been …
Catholic social media has been all abuzz in recent days over a NJ parish, Church of the Precious Blood in Monmouth Beach, that had issued the following announcement on its website over the weekend: Confessions Are Now Available for Those Who Are Vaccinated …
On March 6, the “God of Surprises” (aka Jorge Bergoglio) addressed an interreligious meeting with Muslims and Jews in Iraq. To no one’s surprise, he began by twisting Sacred Scripture in order to lend an air of credibility to the false claims he …
